Thursday 26 November 2009

energywork


i have been working on a body of work over the past year that explores the energy connected with some of the places i walk. the line, here a thread connects, pierces and reveals this idea. this idea of energy relates to both large philosophy ideas that attempt to understand the world, holistic world vision’s such as Gaia hypothesis, ‘formal’ spiritualism and Holism in science as well as a way of making sense of physical aspects of being outside. the work has manifest itself as a series of bookworks

Friday 20 November 2009

someprojects


spent the day working between developing a powerpoint for a meeting in Chelmsford developing Moulsham St - looking at surfaces and creating a space that works for everybody and creating images for a series of bookworks around the sky and movement

Wednesday 18 November 2009

bookjacketcomment4shing




Shing created a wonderful book about his time on the Book Arts MA at Camberwell and has published an interesting book that serves as a document of him time in London - i was pleased to add a comment to the book jacket

Thursday 12 November 2009

busytime


its been a full and busy time recently – visited the Venice Biennial – which was as ever wonderful - 4 days of art from 11.00 – 6.00 in astonishing spaces accompanied by excellent food and blue skies. my work at NUCA continues with my involvement with the BA Textiles in reflective thinking and virtual learning recent seminars include problem solving http://www.slideshare.net/l.bicknell/09-005-problem-solving-lateral-thinking and audiences http://www.slideshare.net/l.bicknell/012-relationships-with-audience my work on the MA’s has a focus on running seminars around the work of students from Drawing, Fine Art and Textile Culture. camberwell is ongoing with a recent seminar looking at the catalogue as a form to interrogate. i have started an interesting job working for/with Essex County Council on the development of a road in Chelmsford and finally there is the continuation of the smoking architecture series.